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CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Underground Railroad Society, Peace in the Hood Inc., the Cleveland Chapter of the New Black Panther Party and Black on Black Crime Inc., with support from a network of community organizations, including the Imperial Women Coalition, the Carl Stokes Brigade and the Cleveland African-American Museum, will hold  the annual African-American Flag Raising Ceremony at Cleveland City Hall following a rally at the Free Stamp under the theme  of "Black Lives Matter."

The open-to-the-public event will be held on Saturday, February 7, 2015 and  is part of a salute to Black History Month. It will begin with a short 'Black Lives Matter' rally at 11:15 am at the Free Stamp next to City Hall and on the steps of City Hall to commentate Black History Month and to remind the community that Blacks lives do matter and that too many of them are being lost too soon in greater Cleveland and elsewhere across the country. (For more information contact Dr. Eugene Jordan by phone at (216) 451-8500, Khalid Samad at (216) 538-4043, Art McKoy at (216) 253-4070 and Kathy Wray Coleman at (216) 659-0473.

'The African-American Flag' will be raised at noon on the steps of City Hall followed by a Black History Month Program inside of City Hall at the Rotunda.

The City of Cleveland was also a sponsor of the gathering.

Activist Khalid Samad, an organizer of the aforementioned event, and the CEO of Peace in the Hood, will be recognized on Monday, February 9 for 40 years of community service by Cleveland Ward 2 Councilman Zack Reed and city council.

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